CAPANO APPLAUDS INTRODUCTION OF "COMMUNITY HEROES PROTECTION ACT" TODAY IN ALBANY --- AND HE SAYS: "The Police Have Constitutional Rights Too...." Then he emphasized: "... The 'Pursuit of Happiness' Includes Returning From Your Shift Alive And Without Bullet Holes...."

Bob Capano is the nephew of two retired Brooklyn cops. Earlier
this year and late last year, Capano collected over 3,000 petition signatures
for a New York State Blue Lives Matter law. Today he applauded State Senator
Fred Akshar, his own State Senator Martin Golden and other members of the
state senate for introducing the "Community Heroes Protection Act,"
(S.1114a) at a session of the NY State Senate in the state's capital in Albany.

Capano is a leading Republican candidate for Brooklyn's 43rd
Council district (Bay Ridge, Dyker heights, Bensonhurst); and today, he said that --- "The
police have constitutional rights too. The 'pursuit of happiness' includes
returning from your shift alive and without bullet holes. There is an attitude
in a segment of society that you can mouth off to the police, disregard
instructions from an officer, and resist arrest…. Black Lives Matter has done enormous damage
to American law enforcement and we must do all we can to protect our police. I
commend Senator Akshar and Senator Golden, who always has the backs of our
cops, for introducing this legislation with his colleagues in the state
senate."

In a written statement, published on the internet by various means,
Bob Capano noted:“According to the National Law
Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund there was a 56% increase in law enforcement
officers killed in shooting related incidents last year…. The ‘Community Heroes Protection Act’ would
categorize crimes against first responders, such as police officers, as hate
crimes and therefore, would increase penalties by one category….”

Capano
says,“It's bad enough that our city taxpayer dollars are
used to pay for social services for those here illegally [and New City government gives illegal aliens ‘fugazi
identification’]--- but now ---the
Mayor is willing to risk billions of dollars in federal grant money that can be
used to improve the lives of everyday New Yorkers who are here legally."

Standing
out among New York City Republicans, Bob Capano, who is a candidate for
Brooklyn's 43rd Council District in Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Bensonhurst,
today supported President Trump's recent Executive Order: Enhancing Public
Safety in the Interior of the United States---At the same time, GOP candidateBobCapano also called
upon Mayor Bill de Blasio to end what Capano describes as NYC's "sanctuary
city" policies.

Capano
is a Bay Ridge resident, who was one of the first local Republicans to endorse
Donald Trump to be the GOP candidate for President, stated that-----"It is time for our city to stop protecting criminals here
illegally and end our sanctuary city policies. The Mayor only has himself to
blame if New York City loses $7 billion because he doesn't want to follow
federal law. It's bad enough that our city taxpayer dollars are used to pay for
social services for those here illegally and give them fugazi identification,
but now the Mayor is willing to risk billions of dollars in federal grant money
that can be used to improve the lives of everyday New Yorkers who are here
legally."During
his speech at the Department of Homeland Security yesterday, President Trump
announced his Executive Order that would withhold federal grants from what are
now called “sanctuary cities.”In that
speech, President Trump said that---"These jurisdictions
(cities) have caused immeasurable harm to the American people and to the very
fabric of our Republic."

A report by NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer has pointed out that --- New
York City could lose up to $7-billion from the federal government.

IT’S MANY MORE THAN JUST MADONNA, WHO NEED TO BE FROG-STEPPED IN
SHACKLES INTO THE BACK OF A BLACK SUV

AFTER DISMISSING THE POSSIBILTY OF "IMPEACHMENT" --- A GERMAN NEWSPAPER EDITOR/PUBLISHER TOLD A PANEL OF EURO-MEDIA-FOLKS
THAT THE EASIEST WAY TO END THE “TRUMP
CATASTROPHE” WOULD BE TO MURDER THE PRESIDENT IN THE WHITE HOUSE & THE PANEL'S MODERATOR JUST MADE A JOKE OUT OF THE SUGGESTION

This stuff shouldn't be laughed off --- in the current environment it is not in any way a laughing matter --- even more so, it isn't an item of fair comment or even a proper expression of upset, anger or outrage

According to Jacob Bojesson,a “foreign correspondent” for the Daily
Caller, “Josef
Joffe, the editor-publisher of German weekly Die Zeit, suggests the easiest way
to end the “Trump catastrophe” is to murder the president in the White House….Joffe joined panel show ARD-Presseclub to
answer questions from the public. A viewer called in to ask if it was possible
to impeach President Donald Trump and end the ‘catastrophe.’…Joffe [ ]jumped in
with a calm response….‘Murder in the
White House, for example,’ he said….”(
See“German Newspaper Editor:
Assassination Easiest Way To End ‘Trump Catastrophe’ [VIDEO] by Jacob Bojessen,
1/26/17, The Daily Caller/ News Foundation[http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/26/german-newspaper-editor-assassination-easiest-way-to-end-trump-catastrophe-video/]).

The Daily Caller piece also noted that Mr. Joffe recently penned an Op-Ed item for “the Guardian” wherein he described President
Donald Trump as a catastrophe for Europe.

First reports of this
story are already a day old, being first put up by Info Wars and World
Net Daily(See Newspaper publisher: 'Murder' would end Trump
presidency--Discussion
on impeachment quickly morphs into talk of assassination”[picked up from “Infowars’], 1/25/17World Net Daily/ Video[http://www.wnd.com/2017/01/newspaper-publisher-murder-would-end-trump-presidency/];original posting:“German
Newspaper Publisher: Murder Trump to Get Him Out of Office -- Tolerant left
strikes again”by Paul Joseph
Watson,1/25/17,Infowars[http://www.infowars.com/german-news-show-panelist-murder-trump-to-get-him-out-of-office/]).

Thereafter,this story made
the rounds of most of the U.S. right-leaning media, getting feature status on most outlets. Nonetheless, none of it made the cut of
newsworthineess in any of the American mainstream media (although the material
already appears in a Wikipedia entry about Josef Joffe).This shouldn’t be surprising since Infowars’
writer Paul Joseph Watson noted yesterday that the American mainstream media’s entire
narrative since the moment Trump became the Republican nominee was to
legitimize protestors’ violence at his rallies and then blame Trump supporters
for the unrest.Needless to say, that
has morphed into both celebrities, pundits and assorted MSM types being very casual and even jocular
about the possibility of a presidential assassination.

That’s
why Madonna’s remarks about blowing up the White House need to be taken very
seriously.If there is even a scintilla
of evidence of any affirmative act in that direction, she would need to be
brought in for some very intense interrogation, because she manifestly would be a serious
domestic threat.

BTW,
it also appears that this Mr. Josef Joffe has connections both to Stanford University
and the Hoover Institute.

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

YOWSUH !!! YOWSUH !!!
--- Just a couple of days after doing some muckraking on Liam
McCabe --- Another mysterious message from a purported BR Dem trickster has gone at a different GOP target

Somebody calling themselves “Bay Dems <bayridgedemsrock@gmail.com>” has sent another threatening E-mail--- This time it concerns GOP City Council Candidate Bob Capano

The most recent
electronic message from “Bay Dems <bayridgedemsrock@gmail.com>”
came in Sunday evening at about a quarter to eight.Here’s what it had to say about Bob Capano:

“Brooklyn voters
will be reminded of Bob Capano's connection to Vito Fossella as his Brooklyn
Director. Fossella was disgraced out of office with a DUI and the discovery of
a second family….Capano also moved
to Bay Ridge from Staten Island just to run for City Council!…Mailings
galore”

MYSTERY BRINGS OUT AT LEAST ONE >>> OTHER
<<< GOP SLEUTH

One GOP sleuth
has opined to me that he doubts that this is from any Democrat at all.

He went even
further, telling me that:so far, there is a pattern---these Emails involve “old news” about GOPers running for City Council in
Bay Ridge whose names aren’t “John
Quaglione.”His prime suspects’ initials are“JQ”;“GK”;
and“RR.”

I PROMISE TO
DO SOME INVESTIGATING ABOUT THIS MYSELF---AND I WILL REPORT BACK IF I FIND
SOMETHING---AND --- ALL I CAN SAY IS: IT BETTER NOT BE "RUSSIAN HACKERS"

I don’t know
that I can agree with my GOP sleuthing friend at this stage of things.Here’s why: Two instances is hardly a
pattern…..And, more important than
that, these E-mails, purporting to be from some BR Dem, might be really from a
BR Dem…..

But, fear
not, Sports Fans, your most humble Independent GOP blogger is on the case.I’ve put out some feelers;and, as soon as I find something juicy, or
even slightly informative, you’ll be among the first to hear about it.

BTW, high on
my list of suspects is >>> “RUSSIAN HACKERS” <<< trying to discredit
our candidates and make us lose faith in the validity of the upcoming City
Council election for Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and some other nearby
communities.

If it does turn out to be the Russkies, I don't know what I'll have to do next.

Sunday, January 22, 2017

Trump and his crew are making it hard for me to do a comprehensive inauguration weekend synopsis ---but here’s a little taste of what’s been happening

Spicer did the bitch-slapping of the whole WH press corps yesterday and Kellyanne Conway did it to NBC’s Chuck Todd on his own show earlier today

WHAT SPICER DID & SAID YESTERDAY THAT CAUSED THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA TO MELTDOWN YESTERDAY & TODAY

According to Breitbart News,“White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer held an emergency press briefing on Saturday where he lit into the media for their ‘egregious’ and ‘deliberately false reporting’ of Friday’s inauguration of President Donald Trump and his first day in office….“Some members of the media were engaged in deliberately false reporting,” Spicer said. He explained that one reporter ‘falsely tweeted out that the bust of Martin Luther King, Jr. had been removed form the Oval Office… This was just plain wrong.’...”(See“WH Press Secretary Sean Spicer Blasts Media’s ‘Deliberately False Reporting’” by Adelle Nazarian,1/22/17, Breitbart News/ Live Updates[http://www.breitbart.com/live/womens-march-washington-live-updates/wh-press-secretary-sean-spicer-blasts-medias-deliberately-false-reporting/]).

Also according to the Nazarian report for Breitbart, Spicer then went on to scold those present that the media had attempted to paint Trump’s inauguration as appearing much smaller than President Barack Obama’s;with Spicer issuing this warning:‘There’s been a lot of talk in the media about holding President Trump accountable. Well, I’m here to tell you that it goes two ways. We’re going to hold the press accountable as well. The American people deserve better,’ Spicer said. ‘And as long as he serves as the messenger of this incredible movement, he will take this message directly to the American people where his focus will always be.’…Breitbart opined that---“Spicer’s criticism of the media’s fake news reporting resulted in a media meltdown on social media….”

WHAT KELLYANNE CONWAY DID EARLIER TODAY SHOWS THAT TRUMP & HIS TEAM INTEND TO KEEP UP ITS FIGHT WITH THE PRESS

According to the Daily Caller,“Kellyanne Conway told Chuck Todd to stop being so “dramatic” on “Meet The Press” Sunday….Todd initially asked her to explain why press secretary Sean Spicer was sent out Saturday to “litigate” the crowd size issue….(See“Kellyanne Drops Rhetorical Atom Bomb On Chuck Todd Over Media’s Crowd Obsession [W/ VIDEO]”by Katie Frates, 1/22/17,Daily Caller/[http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/22/kellyanne-drops-rhetorical-atom-bomb-on-chuck-todd-over-medias-crowd-obsession-video/]).

Here’s how Conway first put it to Chuck Todd:“ ‘The fact that 29, 30 million women voted for Donald Trump for president. They should be respected, somebody should cover their voices as well,’ she said. ‘I’m about things that are quantifiable and important. I don’t think, ultimately, presidents are judged by crowd sizes at their inauguration, I think they’re judged by their accomplishments.’…‘On this matter of crowd size, I think it’s a symbol for the [un]fair and incomplete treatment that this president often receives,’ she said.”

Things got more heated when MTP host Chuck Todd tried to press Conway on why she wasn’t answering a question about why WH Press Secretary Spicer had come out to tell-off the press on Saturday evening. According to Chuck Todd:“You did not answer the question. Why did the president send out his press secretary, who’s not just the spokesperson for Donald Trump, he also serves as the spokesperson for all of America at times, he speaks for all of the country at times,” Todd said. “Why put him out there for the very first time in front of that podium to utter a provable falsehood? It’s a small thing, but the first time he confronts the public, it’s a falsehood?”

That’s when Conway let him have it with this:“ 'Chuck, I mean, if we’re going to keep referring to our press secretary in those types of terms, I think that we’re going to have to rethink our relationship here. I want to have a great, open relationship with our press, but look what happened the day before. Talking about falsehoods. We allowed the press to come into the Oval Office and witness President Trump signing executive orders….‘What happens almost immediately? A falsehood is told about removing the bust of Martin Luther King Jr from the Oval Office.’…”

Then Todd tried to press his point by being repetitious---“ ‘Excuse me. It does not excuse, and you did not answer the question. You did not [ ] answer the question of why the president asked the White House press secretary to come out in front of the podium for the first time and utter a falsehood,’ Todd said. ‘Why did he do that? It undermines the credibility of the entire White House press office on day one.’…”

Conway slickly put Todd back in his place with---“Don’t be so overly dramatic about it Chuck.”

Saturday, January 21, 2017

Will/Liam
McCabe’s campaign for City Council isn’t even off the ground --- yet --- some of his detractors
are already dumping warm stuff onto him --- BR Dems do a
quick little E-mail hit on a probable GOP candidate for City Council

Don’t those folks know that none of the folks, who think that they count, cares one wit about that warm old stuff --- because THEY have penciled-in McCabe to be their “Dog” in
the 2017 race for City Council --- and that's all there is to it

When I get a
brick over the transom wrapped in a well-known bunch of media sites/cites, I
know that somebody is sending a message…..
In this case,I suspect that the
message is intended to be more for Mr. McCabe and those close to him than it is
for me.

Quite simply
the meat and potatoes of the BR Dems E-mail is the following list of seven (7)
negative articles about Liam McCabe:

That list was accompanied by this ominous
notation:“This is just from
a quick google search and does not include [multiple additional possible record
& source searches]….Imagine a mailing or two with these to
district….”( Sent from:Bay Demsbayridgedemsrock@gmail.com).

MY TWO CENTS WORTH

First,
I am a little miffed that "whoever" at the BR Dems sent this to me didn’t know
that >>> most, if not all,of the above sources
and/or issues had been mentioned on this blog in the past, and actually much of it has been debated
here in many, many responsive comments about McCabe and his [hi]story.

Second, as a bit of relevant background, I don’t think that material like this is
likely to influence candidate McCabe and the folks around him. You see, to many in the current GOP and
Conservative Party leadership, Will/Liam McCabe is not intended to be a serious winning
candidate in the 2017 races for the City Council.

No,
Liam McCabe isn’t supposed to win anything, except a possible GOP primary
against Bob Capano.The “new elders” in the GOP and the “old
elders” in the Conservative Party have gotten behind a deal between Marty
Golden and some Democrat for that Democrat to become the next councilman from
Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights, and some pieces of other neighborhoods.[But,more about that at another time….]The
long and the short of it is that some local folks "that think who they are" want the local political race
in 2017 to be a “boat race”---not a real horserace to the finish…..At whatever kind of race you think 2017 might be or become,one thing "you can take to the bank" is that
Liam McCabe is intended to be the “dog” in the race---not “underdog”---just “dog” ( you know like those mangy strays
he says he cares so much about)…..

Monday, January 16, 2017

Almost all of John Lewis’ extreme leftist utterances have been largely about the
shortcomings of mainstream American politics and/or his notion of “injustice”
--- which is no better than one man’s bitter one-sided
expression of the perceived grievances of underachieving American blacks

John Lewis compared the GOP and the 1994 "Contract with America" to Nazi Germany; and he has unfairly played the "race card" against the three most
recent GOP candidates for President during each of their campaigns--
DONALD TRUMP, MITT ROMNEY and JOHN MC CAIN

John Lewis always was a firebrand, during his “civil-rights” days he
was chairman of the so-called .>>>
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee <<<, a hard-left
organization in the 1960s, At the March
on Washington. “Lewis’ prepared remarks [ ] had to be toned down for the event.”
Nonetheless, his speech called for “radical social, political and economic
changes.”which Martin Luther King gave
his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. Lewis’ prepared remarks had to be toned
down for the event. Nonetheless, Lewis’ speech contained the following
left-wing revolutionary rhetoric:““We
all recognize the fact that if any radical social, political and economic
changes are to take place in our society, the people, the masses, must bring
them about.”

Clearly CongressmanLewis is proud of what some people
have called “his very liberal voting record” while in the House of
Representatives---during that time he has also been quite friendly
to socialist and communist causes. A
prime example is that he was a founding member of the Congressional Progressive
Caucus, formed with the help of the Democratic Socialists of America, and he
was also a sponsor and vice chairman of an FBI identified Communist front group
known as the National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities
Committee. As far back as1969, Lewis was listed as a sponsor of the GI Civil
Liberties Defense Committee, an anti-U.S.-military organization dominated by
the Socialist Workers Party; and in 1973 Congressman Lewis was listed as a
“sponsor for a founding conference of the National Alliance Against Racist and
Political Repression, listed by the FBI as a Communist Party front group.

In 1995 Lewis compared the GOP and the “Contract with America” to the WW II
Nazis in Germany

From the floor of the
House on March 21, 1995,four months
after Republicans had won House and Senate majorities largely on the strength
of the “Contract With America,”Congressman Lewis rhetorically compared the Republicans, newly in the
majority, to the Nazi regime in Germany.Quoting a WW II anti-Nazi German pastor, Lewis said this: “They came
first for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews … trade unionists … Catholics … Protestants
…” Then Lewis concluded solemnly: “Read the Republican contract. They are
coming for the children. They are coming for the poor. They are coming for the
sick, the elderly, and the disabled.”

In 2008 Lewis’ attacks on McCain & Palin linked them to racist
murders

During the 2008
presidential capaign, Lewis openly suggested that the Republican candidate, John
McCain, represented a throwback to George Wallace (whom Lewis seems to forget
was a member of his own Democrat party)Lewis said “What I am seeing
reminds me too much of another destructive period in American history. Sen.
McCain and Gov. Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is
no need for this hostility in our political discourse…”He then rhetorically linked McCain and Palin
to a long time ago church bombing, which resulted in the deaths of four young
girls.

In 2012 Lewis likened Mitt Romney to a racist segregationist-- asking,“…DO YOU WANT TO GO BACK [to the
segregated days in the South] ?”

Obviously, Lewis also
played the race card against Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney during
the 2012 campaign, when he implied that if Romney were elected he would bring
back segregation---“I’ve seen this before, I lived this before,”
Congressman Lewis exclaimed, after he had described his activities throughout
the South in the 50s and 60s. Then he
intoned, “We were met by an angry mob
that beat us and left us lying in a pool of blood. Brothers and sisters, do you
want to go back? Or do you want to keep
America moving forward?”

Lewis did much the same to GOP candidate Donald Trump in 2016

In the 2016 presidential
campaign, Congressman Lewis repeated one of his familiar chants when he
compared the GOP candidate, Donald Trump, to George Wallace.Lewis’ exact quote: “I’ve been around a
while and Trump reminds me so much of a lot of the things that George Wallace
said and did…. Sometimes I feel like I
am reliving part of my past. I heard it so much growing up in the South…I heard
it so much during the days of the civil-rights movement….”

For these and some more examples, you need to read Joseph
Farah’s letter in World Net Daily (See“8
Other Extremist Outrages from Democrat John Lewis” by Joseph Farah,
1/15/17,WND/ Exclusive [http://www.wnd.com/2017/01/7-other-extremist-outrages-from-democrat-john-lewis/]).

Sunday, January 15, 2017

“Exclusive: The Trump
Administration May Evict the Press from the White House – ‘They are the opposition party,’ a senior
official says' ”---Esquire.

Reports
appearing in mediums as diverse as “The Hill”; “USA Today”; the “NY Daily News”;
“Mediaite”; “Talking Points Memo”; the “Daily Caller”; and “Slate” picked up
and reported on Esquire’s “exclusive” --- showing that there is a real buzz going
around about major changes in how a “President Donald Trump” will be dealing
with an entity referred to as “The White House Press Corps”

Here’s how the Daily Caller handled this apparently emerging story:“The
Trump-transition team is reportedly considering plans to evict the White House
press corps from its home in the presidential residence, in what White House
Press Secretary Sean Spicer says is a move to actually increase the media’s
access to the president….Citing three ‘senior
sources,’ Esquire first reported the plan under consideration in
President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team, which Spicer later acknowledged
to the magazine….‘There’s been so much
interest in covering a President Donald Trump,’ he said. ‘A
question is: Is a room that has forty-nine seats adequate? When we had that
press conference the other day, we had thousands of requests, and we capped it
at four hundred,’ he told the publication. ‘Is there an opportunity to
potentially allow more members of the media to be part of this? That’s
something we’re discussing.’…”(See “Report:
Trump Considering Evicting Press Corps From White House” by Juliegrace Brufke,
1/15/17, The Daily Caller [http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/15/report-trump-considering-evicting-press-corps-from-white-house/]).

The Brufke-Daily Caller article went on to say,“….Reporters, who have long sat in the West Wing, could
potentially end up in the Old Executive Office Building, next door or in
the White House Conference Center by Lafayette Square, Esquire reports.”

The report that appeared in Slate was somewhat more
combative.In addition to the basic
reporting on Esquire’s scoop, Slate added this”“…any potential move
has more to do with the contentious relationship Trump has with the press,
which has led some in the administration to see the reporters as more than just
mere observers. ‘They are the opposition party,’ a senior official told Esquire.
‘I want 'em out of the building. We are taking back the press room.’…"(See“Trump
Team Considers Kicking Press Corps Out of White House” by Daniel Politi, 1/15.17,
Slate[http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/01/15/trump_administration_could_kick_press_corps

SOMETHING ESQUIRE'S ORIGINAL ARTICLE ALSO SAID

Esquire’s original piece that covered all of
the above points, and even more, closed with this:“….Trump himself, of course, is in many ways a creature of
the press, and it remains to be seen whether he will sign off on a plan that
puts more distance between him and the cameras whose attention he has long
sought. But for some Trump officials, the media's presumption of entitlement
all but requires a change. If there is a credo that reflects the culture inside
the James Brady Briefing Room (named after President Ronald Reagan's first
press secretary, who was wounded by a bullet meant for Reagan), it is that
presidents come, and presidents go, but the White House press corps is forever.
In that sentiment, some in the transition team discern precisely the attitude
that led to the revolt that elected Trump president.”(See“Exclusive: The Trump
Administration May Evict the Press from the White House” by Peter J. Boyer,
1/14/17, Esquire [http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a52301/trump-evict-press-white-house/]).

The key folksperson at the Kings County
Politics blog seems to think so…..

According to the blogger[s] (?) at KCP---“Although there is still a lot of track left in the 2017
Bay Ridge Derby to succeed term-limited 43rd District City Councilman Vincent
Gentile (Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Bath Beach, Dyker Heights), Democrat Justin Brannan and Republican Bob
Capanoare clearly
showing the fortitude, will and political organizational skills that defines
frontrunner status….”(See“43rd City Council Race: Brannan, Capano Jump Out of
the Gate Galloping” by Kings County
Politics, 1/13/17, KCP/ BayRidge[http://www.kingscountypolitics.com/43rd-city-council-race-brannan-capano-jump-gate-galloping/]).

KCP ON JUSTIN BRANNAN

The article immediately
lays out one of the reasons that its views about Justin Brannan have some real cred,
with this:“….Brannan, who recently left his job with the
de Blasio Administration to concentrate on the upcoming November Primary (sic),
announced yesterday he has already pulled in $57,000 from more than 400 donors
in just over one month after opening his campaign committee. He also cleared
the 75 in-district contributor threshold, making him eligible to receive the
max in public funding, which will give him $6 in public money for every $1
dollar he raises within certain guidelines….”

KCP ON BOB CAPANO

The KCP piece devoted
almost as much enthusiasm for the candidacy of Republican Bob Capano, however
it focused on different attributes of Capano as a campaigner -- thus:“….On[ ] the Republican side, Capano is almost [as] frightening with the amount
of press releases he puts out, but deserves a lot of credit for weighing in on
the issues of the day, including a good many that have direct impact on
residents in the district…For example,
Capano recently fired off a press release standing up for local residents after
Gov. Cuomo announced his plan for Verrazano Bridge toll reductions for Staten
Islanders but not for Brooklynites….Capano
has also taken a stand against the city’s plan to charge residents a nickel for
plastic bags and other issues. Most recently, he assailed [Linda Sarsour, a Bay
Ridge Democrat activist, who is Muslim and] one of the national co-chairs of
the Jan. 21 Women’s March on Washington as saying that all opponents of the
progressive movement were “united around racism.”

THE KCP ARTICLE MADE AT LEAST ONE
NEGATIVE COMPARISON ABOUT REPUBLICAN CAPANO AND HIS POSSIBLE/PROBABLE GOP
OPPONENTS---QUAGLIONE AND MC CABE

There was this little bit of slop on the track in front of Bob
Capano, whom the KCP blog called the GOP “frontrunner.”Here’s how the big man at KCP sees this very
important thing: “Capano’s two
perspective (sic) opponents, Laim (sic) McCabe, who works in Congressman Dan
Donovan’s office, and John Quaglione, who is the communications director for
Sen. Marty Golden, have thus far been fairly quiet….That said, both McCabe and Quaglione have
shown the ability to raise money within the district, which would make them
elegibile for public campaign financing, while it remains to be seen what kind
of local financial support Capano will get.”

Well, there you have somebody other than me with a
Brooklyn political blogger’s view of the early going in this race.
Let’s see where all or any of this goes……..

Friday, January 13, 2017

ON ELECTION DAY 2017 ---there
will be a very important ballot referendum ---SUCH
A REFERENDUM IS MANDATED TO BE HELD IN 2017 BY THE EXISTING NYS CONSTITUTION

The proposition will seek to determine
whether to hold a NYS Constitutional Convention in 2019 and to authorize such
NYS Constitutional Convention to amend the existing NYS Constitution or draft an
entirely new one

LETS START OUR COVERAGE ABOUT THE "CON-CON" REFERENDUM WITH THIS >>> The
Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government at the State University of New
York (SUNY), the Government Law Center at Albany Law School, the League of
Women Voters of New York State and the Siena Research Institute have embarked on
a multiyear program to educate the public on the constitutional convention. According to a statement on the institute’s
website, the purpose of their joint venture was
“… [T]o ensure that New York’s
voters, are made aware of this work, [and go to vote in 2017] with a clearer
sense of what a constitutional convention could achieve....”[SEE BRIEF ITEM BELOW]

According to an article
on the webpage of the Rockefeller
Institute of Government“On November 7, 2017, voters will go
into voting booths throughout New York State and, as they are every 20 years,
will be faced with the Constitutionally mandated question, ”Shall there be a
convention to revise the constitution and amend the same?” (N.Y. Const.,
Art XIX, sec 2)…In only
nine instances in New York State history have we convened a Convention to
consider how the State Constitution might be altered, potentially changing how
government in Albany works….Recognizing
the importance of this opportunity, the Rockefeller Institute, the Government
Law Center at Albany Law School, the League of Women Voters of New York State,
and the Siena Research Institute have joined forces, often with partner organizations
from around the state, to conceive and implement a multiyear campaign designed
to ensure that each of New York’s voters, made aware of this work, goes to vote
with a clearer sense of what a Constitutional Convention could achieve….Contained within this Constitutional
Convention web portal are sections that provide context, history, a timeline,
videos of presentations, information about our partners and experts, a guide to
publications, and a media archive of the work being done to greatly enhance
civic engagement on this pivotal issue….”(See“New York State
Constitutional Convention 2017”by the Rockefeller Institute of Government
– The public policy research arm of the State University of New York [and the
Government Law Center at Albany Law School, the League of Women Voters of New
York State, and the Siena Research Institute] [http://www.rockinst.org/nys_concon2017/]).

Thursday, January 12, 2017

Rosie O'Donnell has openly
called on the Obama White House to declare “martial law” in order to stop Donald
Trump from being sworn in as the country’s lawfully elected President --- until he has been " 'cleared' of all charges" (????)

So far, only right-wing
media is reporting on this meltdown by the corpulent darling of the left-wing entertainment
and media elites

According to a report Newsmax,“Rosie O'Donnell is calling on the White
House to declare Martial Law in a bid to stop her longtime nemesis Donald Trump
from being sworn in as the nation's 45th commander-in-chief….O'Donnell's demand is her latest [ ] Twitter
jab at the president-elect, who is scheduled to be inaugurated Jan. 20.”(See“Rosie
Calls for Martial Law to Stop Trump” by Bill Hoffman,1/12/17,Newsmax/ Home/ Politics[http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/Martial-Law-Rosie-ODonnell-Twitter-social-media/2017/01/12/id/768288/]).

Let's see who on "the left" salutes now that Rosie has run her idea of making the U.S.A. into a banana republic up the flagpole..... So far, there has not been a peep of censure or even a word of criticism for Rosie O'Donnell's latest reckless suggestion.

In fact, so far this news item about Ms. O'Donnell's modest proposal to overturn the result of the 2016 election is only being reported upon by right-leaning media outlets.....

Monday, January 9, 2017

FBI released
a bunch of HRC’s E-mails in the middle of the night Sunday with no accompanying news
release or synopsis---More classified material found among HRC'S E-mails previously
thought to have been missing---More Sec/State E-mails found, not previously
known to have been missing, and not part of Sec/State Clinton’s official E-mails
turned over to/by State Department, and at least one of those E-mails was
classified

“The FBI states it found ‘that
hostile foreign actors successfully gained access to the personal email
accounts of individuals associated with [and with] whom Clinton was in regular contact
and, in doing so, obtained emails sent to or received by Clinton on her
personal account.’…"---NEWSMAX, 1/9/17

According to
Newsmax,“The
FBI late Sunday night released additional documents related to the
investigation into Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's use of a
private email server, posting the information on its website and doing so
without sending out a release or announcing the move….WikiLeaks reported the news first….”(See“FBI
Releases More Hillary Emails, Says 'Hostile Foreign Actors' Accessed” by
Solange Reyner, 1/8/17, Newsmax/ Newsfront [http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/hillary-clinton-investigation-fbi-investigative/2017/01/08/id/767425/]).Also according to the Newsmax report, the new material released by the FBI was in five batches and was recovered from computers and other devices turned over to the FBI by various Hillary Clinton "associates".....

Friday, January 6, 2017

Trump has signaled that he intends to reform the U.S.
intelligence establishment---It looks like THEY WERE NOT AMUSED ---Is
it time for Trump to DOUBLE DOWN ???

Does anybody NOT believe that many of the “Career
Professionals” in the various U.S. intelligence services aren’t also [gladly]
willing to be partisan "political hacks" ???

In case you missed it, President Elect Donald Trump is
getting briefed today by an official delegation [gaggle] of top U.S. intelligence types about the
alleged hacking of the 2016 American elections by the Russian’s led by Putin.

Yesterday, some the official leading lights of the Obama-led
U.S. intelligence services testified before a U.S. Senate Committee prominently led
by that old “Republican” war horse John McCain.The upshot of that hearing was that everything that had been said before
was repeated once more with feeling.That also means that no new evidence of the alleged Russian election hack was put
forward; but everybody there agreed that it happened.

TRUMP REMAINED RIGHTFULLY SCEPTICAL

Several news stories today say that Trump is going into his
meeting with the intelligence guys openly skeptical about what they have on the
Russian’s---the phrases, “WITCH HUNT” or "POLITICAL WITCH HUNT" seem to be the
operative buzz.

Let’s see if Trump comes out of this “briefing” and doubles
down on his openly-expressed doubt about all of this stuff.

Don't forget, Trump has signaled that he intends to make some changes in/to the U.S. intelligence services. The "career" intelligence folks can't be happy with that. Trump needs to clearly link all that to his crusade to "Drain the Swamp" in Washington.

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I formerly have commented on various political blogs concerning Republican politics. Although the focus of my political commentary has been on the Brooklyn GOP and other aspects of politics in Brooklyn, I have also posted commentary about national matters.
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